In a larger view
of the
south pole, the area surrounding the ice cap is peppered
with craters, many of them several kilometers in diameter,
most notably, the formation in the upper left that exhibits
a dome-shaped central feature within a crater. The
dome-shaped feature is unique for its size, but appears to
be an exact analog for many images of
“blueberries” embedded within a rock matrix. A case for
the electrical nature of such formations has been made in
past
Pictures of the Day and we will return to this topic in
future articles.

The south polar
deposits on Mars cover an area bigger than the State of
Texas – about 430,000 square kilometers. Of particular
interest are the dual, swirling arcs that mark the paths of
the
ridges, buried under the carbon dioxide frost and
water-ice deposits visible at
both poles. For all intents and purposes, the twin
spiral shapes at the Martian poles are representative of the
electric dipole effect that has been demonstrated at the
poles of both
Venus and
Saturn. The hardened rock strata, preserving the shapes
of two counter-rotating currents indicates that the crust of
Mars experienced, and may be continuing to experience,
electric forces. As has been noted in a previous Thunderbolts
Picture of the Day, the electricity in the Martian
environment is what gives rise to the dust storms that form
in this region, feeding their huge,
spinning flow.

“The abundant
circumpolar pits in the south lack the raised rims expected
of impacts. They exhibit the alignments of so-called
'secondary crater chains.' There are no such things. All
linear arrangements of craters are the result of an arc
moving across a surface. Both the pits beneath and the
delicate layering are the kinds of things we should expect
if the south polar deposit was electrically deposited.”

When electric
currents pass through a plasma they are
twisted into a helical pattern as the forces attempt to
balance themselves within the magnetic turbulence that is
created by the interaction. Because Mars lacks a substantial
magnetosphere (1\800th that of the Earth), its surface
is almost directly exposed to intense positive charges
coming from the sun. At some point in the past the intensity
of those forces increased to a titanic level and traveled
through the planet from pole-to-pole in a huge electric
circuit. That formidable event excavated billions of tons of
material from the north polar region, while at the same time
layering a similar volume of material on the south pole.

During the
discharge event(s), the Birkeland currents carved the deep
canyons at the
north and
south poles, while simultaneously drawing together the
surface debris into the curvilinear ridges that run parallel
to them. The result was the “fossils” (at both poles) of a
planetary electric vortex that engulfed Mars.

Authors David Talbott and Wallace
Thornhill introduce the reader to an age of planetary instability
and earthshaking electrical events in ancient times. If their
hypothesis is correct, it could not fail to alter many paths of
scientific investigation.

Professor
of engineering Donald Scott systematically unravels the myths of the
"Big Bang" cosmology, and he does so without resorting to black
holes, dark matter, dark energy, neutron stars, magnetic
"reconnection", or any other fictions needed to prop up a failed
theory.

In
language designed for scientists and non-scientists alike, authors
Wallace Thornhill and David Talbott show that even the greatest
surprises of the space age are predictable patterns in an electric
universe.